Joshua 9:21 · JPS 1917

And the princes said concerning them: 'Let them live'; so they became hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the princes had spoken concerning them.

Who acts: princes · What happens: say, let, live, become, speak · To what, where: princes, hewers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Joshua 9:21 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princes	det
3	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	concerning	concern	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct
9	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Let	obj
11	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Let	xcomp
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 became	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
17	hewers	hewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 became	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 wood	case
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hewers	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drawers	cc
21	drawers	drawer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hewers	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 water	case
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drawers	nmod
24	unto	unto	ADP	_	27 congregation	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 congregation	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 congregation	det
27	congregation	congregation	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 became	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 spoken	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 spoken	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 princes	det
31	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 spoken	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 spoken	aux
33	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 became	advcl
34	concerning	concern	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 spoken	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the princes		concern children = child	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive		princes = prince		tree rules
3	live	infinitive	princes = prince not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	princes = prince	hewers of wood and drawers of water	unto all congregation	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	speak speech: other	past · perfect	the princes		concern drawers = drawer	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The Hebrew of this verse

וַיֹּאמְר֧וּ אֲלֵיהֶ֛ם הַנְּשִׂיאִ֖ים יִֽחְי֑וּ וַ֠יִּֽהְיוּ חֹטְבֵ֨י עֵצִ֤ים וְשֹֽׁאֲבֵי־מַ֙יִם֙ לְכָל־הָ֣עֵדָ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר דִּבְּר֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם הַנְּשִׂיאִֽים׃

Joshua 9:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOS:214 of Mova's parse database.

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